Hey...
Have you tried doing Box Squats?
I was having trouble going deep enough in my squats, so I switched to box squats for a while and it fixed the problem...
Just a thought....

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The Box Squats you did sound good... I do a similar thing using a bench, although I touch, and we are around the same height.
The wobbly legs is a good sign, as it shows you are hitting the muscles differently or targeting a weaker part of your squat.

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When you say "the short bar" and "the long bar" are you refering to standard versus olympic bars? I ask only so that I can recommend using an olympic bar all the time. Basically when deadlifting with an oly bar, don't do less than 60kg (bar + 20kg plate at each side) as the starting height is likely to be wrong.

I would advise against getting too comfortable with the standard bar as once your deadlift gets past 100kg, they aree unsafe to use.

jonathan wrote:When you say "the short bar" and "the long bar" are you refering to standard versus olympic bars? I ask only so that I can recommend using an olympic bar all the time. Basically when deadlifting with an oly bar, don't do less than 60kg (bar + 20kg plate at each side) as the starting height is likely to be wrong.

I would advise against getting too comfortable with the standard bar as once your deadlift gets past 100kg, they aree unsafe to use.

Jonathan

Use olympic bar...check!

There are 3 types of bar at the gym, the thinner ones, the thicker ones (which I assume are the olympic bars) and then one bar that is the same thickness as the thick bars but shorter.

Out of interest do people factor the bar into their weights when they post 1RM and training logs then? I've never done that, just the plates I've lifted.